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Anarchy and an American Icon

After reading the title of this article then you more than likely read the word anarchy and have images of black masks, Molotov cocktails and burning cars in rolling through your head. You can thank decades of intentional and unintentional misuse of the word by the Empire and its citizens. Now most people equate anarchy with destruction and chaos, instead of the philosophy of voluntary associations and interactions that it actually is. By definition Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy over the individual.

Lets take a look at the points below….

1 – All people are created equal.

2- All people have individual rights.

3 – All interactions between people should be voluntary

No one has the right….

1 – To harm you.

2- To threaten you,

3- To steal from you.

4- To violate your rights

Everyone has…

1 – The right to liberty – We can do what we want, as long as we do not

violate the rights of others.

2 – The right to self-defense – We can defend ourselves, our property,

and our individual rights,

3- The right to own and carry weapons – So we have the ability to

defend ourselves, our property, and our rights.

4- The right to self-ownership – We own ourselves. No one can claim

even partial ownership over you without violating your rights,

5- The right to free speech – We can communicate our opinions and

ideas without fear of government retaliation or censorship.

6- The right to privacy – No one has the right to violate our privacy.

Any law that violates our rights is null and void. Anyone that violates

our rights is a criminal.

If any of these resonates with you then congratulations, you believe in the importance of individual rights and your more anarchist than you might think. Both primary political parties disagree with most of these points whether they openly state it or not. At least that it should only apply to certain people mainly them selves, their parties, or the Empires “elites.” The Empire fixates and points to a small percentage of the anarchist in the world that commit violence because anarchists are essentially running on the platform that the Empire’s systems are not only unnecessary but in most cases more harmful than helpful.

Both sides of the political isle like to talk about if founding fathers were alive today they would be on our side, but If you looked at the founding fathers beliefs at the time they would be defined closer to anarchists today than they would democrat or republican. They also just wanted to be left alone to live their lives the way they saw fit. They were very against government especially big government and believed that it will always be a coercive organization whether it was a monarchy, a democracy, or a republic it didn’t matter. That’s is the basis of anarchist thought. You need only look at the articles of confederation and the bill of rights to see that. The articles of confederation for those that don’t know were the original governing documents for the United states government that were far more restrictive on what the federal government could do before the Constitution replaced them. As smart as the founding fathers were they couldn’t even imagine the behemoth conglomerate of corporations governments, private institutions, monopolies and so called “elite” individuals that would become the Empire of Nothing Or the citizens who would willingly sign up for that which the founding fathers feared most for the simple benefit of a little convenience.

Now on to the American Icon

The rattle snake…. nope not the eagle.

The rattle snake has been an American Icon since the American revolution and has been donned by many groups from militias to motorcycle clubs, Law enforcement and military units a like ever since. The rattle snake was even written about by Benjamin Franklin in an originally anonymous letter written to the Pennsylvania Journal on December 27, 1775 which in part read.

I observed on one of the drums belonging to the marines now raising, there was painted a Rattle-Snake, with this modest motto under it, “Don’t tread on me.” As I know it is the custom to have some device on the arms of every country, I supposed this may have been intended for the arms of America … the ancients considered the serpent as an emblem of wisdom, and in a certain attitude of endless duration – both which circumstances I suppose may have been had in view. Having gained this intelligence, and recollecting that countries are sometimes represented by animals peculiar to them, it occurred to me that the Rattle-Snake is found in no other quarter of the world besides America, and may therefore have been chosen, on that account, to represent her. I recollected that her eye excelled in brightness, that of any other animal, and that she has no eye-lids. She may therefore be esteemed an emblem of vigilance. She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders: She is therefore an emblem of magnanimity and true courage. As if anxious to prevent all pretensions of quarreling with her, the weapons with which nature has furnished her, she conceals in the roof of her mouth, so that, to those who are unacquainted with her, she appears to be a most defenseless animal; and even when those weapons are shown and extended for her defense, they appear weak and contemptible; but their wounds however small, are decisive and fatal. Conscious of this, she never wounds ’till she has generously given notice, even to her enemy, and cautioned him against the danger of treading on her.

Was I wrong, Sir, in thinking this a strong picture of the temper and conduct of America?

In short snakes have been seen as symbol of wisdom throughout history. Rattle snakes keeps to themself, wants to be left alone but is also dangerous and after good warning is not afraid to defend it self wholeheartedly if tread on.

This should be something that all men aspire to. To live their life as independently and as free as possible. To understand individual rights and not infringe on the rights of others, to be knowledgeable, physically fit and to be able to defend themselves and their tribes if necessary, both physically but perhaps more importantly legally. However strong enough and with enough wisdom to keep their skills reserved only for when they are truly needed.

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What is a Modern Barbarian

Most of the “culture” these days is just marketing, and marketing at large is driven by the Empire. When you look around and look at society and its culture you have to understand that very little of it actually occurred or changed naturally. Human beings typically, are easy to influence and manipulate and because of that society is easy to manipulate and influence, if you have enough money or power. There is usually an agenda behind the shifts and trends in culture and society. Very often this agenda is to make someone alot of money or someone more power. For a crash course in what I am talking about check out this video.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIK-q6JoOeU

What is the empire?

The Empire or “The Empire of Nothing” is a term coined by Jack Donovan, who describes it as “a collection of self interested and self perpetuating groups including the banking institutions, military, governments, unions, special interests groups, the entertainment industry, corporations, the media…” and so on.

There is no one head of the Empire, its not one single all encompassing organization. Its a loose alliance between many smaller and larger organizations. These organizations and the people that own and run them all work to further their own and sometimes combined interests and agendas whatever they may be. You only need to look as far as any current hot button topic to see smaller examples of this in action But for the Empire as a whole the agenda typically is to facilitate global trade, aka make a lot of money.

We will cover this in more depth in a future article but for now under stand that the Empire pushes marketing to influence society. Pushing mainly a wildly unhealthy, both mentally and physically, spiritual-less, materialistic, dependent, mass consumer culture for the basic agenda to make money for the Empire. This marketing takes the form of not only ads, but social movements in order to manipulate the culture.

So! What is a barbarian

Historically A barbarian, is a member of a people who are not part of one of the ancient ‘great nations’ such as the Greek or Roman Empires. The designation is usually applied as a generalization based on a popular stereotype such as “they practices witchcraft” or “they eat children”and used in a derogatory manner to promote these mental images in the populace. This was done to make them seem less than human for one of many agendas usually war propaganda despite the fact that generally “barbarians” were just groups of people different from the Empire of the time that didn’t want to join the empire and wanted to be left alone.

In modern times, as boarders seem to become more and more blurred through social media and the hyper connected nature of the internet. Culture doesn’t stop at boarders or governmental boundaries any more. The Empire’s culture and societal norm transcend them, If you doubt this just look at how many people riot in Europe for someone killed by the police in America or why you can find a McDonalds in most even slightly developed countries, or why people all over the world do the same Tik Tok trends. The term is still used to demean anything that goes against the empires culture, used as a synonym, for evil, disgusting, criminal, etcetera. Even if those they describe as barbarians are none of those things thats the image that pops into everyones mind allowing the Empire to justifying guilting its citizen sheep into doing what it wants them to.

With all of that in mind though, the definition of barbarian still holds true, someone out side or not fully integrated into the Empire. Someone who looks around them today and doesn’t like what they see coming from the Empires so-called civilization and decides to go another way and go against Its “culture.” Someone who lives their life as independent of the Empire and its various systems as possible. Someone who lives outside of its culture or ways of thinking. They think for themselves and makes their own decisions on how to live their life.

Now what is a modern barbarian?

Like stated above, someone out side or not fully integrated into the Empire, or its culture.

The Empire wants its citizens unhealthy, and dependent, the modern barbarian strives to live their life as independent of the Empire and its various systems as possible. Taking responsibility for their own life whether thats their health, wealth or safety. Learning to use the aspects of the Empire of Nothing that is beneficial and leaving the rest.

They want them to only trust the media? The barbarian will think for themselves, do their own research and makes their own decisions.

The Empire wants its men alone and separated? The barbarians will build their own brotherhoods of like minded men.

The Empire wants everyone sleeping around promoting promiscuity in both sexes the barbarians choose to build families and marriages.

They know history and embrace tradition instead of letting it be torn down and destroyed. The modern barbarian knows that history is there to teach us not only the good to do but the bad to avoid In the future.

What does this look like in practice?

This could mean switching from a main stream Allopathic MD to a Functional Medicine MD.

It could be stopping eating manufactured food and go back to eating natural and organic foods.

It could be running your own business, starting a side hustle, learning to day trade, anything to create multiple streams of income.

It could be intentional communities where you share the above responsibilities with other people or simply bringing your family friends and brothers together to do the same thing.

It could be all of these things or only some of them. Its up to you, your brotherhood and your tribe And how you want to achieve your freedom and independence.

So what are you going to do stay a citizen sheep of The Empire of Nothing? Or step out into the wild, be free and Become a modern barbarian?

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Choose Your Master – Voting

Lets talk voting, as a rule I hate politics, At best its nothing but corruption and self serving elitists pandering to a populous they know nothing about, hoping they can convince enough of them to keep them in power so they can continue to enrich themselves. However these days not only is it everywhere, both sides supporters are so devoted to it that if you don’t pay attention it might just wind up killing you. It’s like any other threat that you encounter, you cannot just put your head in the sand and hope it goes away you have to pay attention to it.

Typically I avoid talking politics in much depth most of the time mainly because the they have extended the political season to damn near 24/7 365, but also I feel in most cases it’s a waste of time. Both sides are part of the problem and yet only blame the other side. Mindlessly following their political parties talking points and parroting catch phrases leaving them oblivious to the fact that both sides are part of the same organization playing everyone toward the middle.

Few people on either side are open to hearing anything that does not 100% fit their parties platform with the majority wanting their life style forced upon the other side with little to no actual desire for freedom for anyone. However the situation will never change if left unexamined so here we are.

This is not an all encompassing discussion but I wanted to cover a few topics briefly that gets you thinking about the whole situation.

People think it matters who occupies that house, (The White House) It doesn’t, multi national corporations and criminals run the world.

~Raymond Reddington

The system is broken…..or is it.

Even of those that believe in the state, many still say it’s broken and needs to be fixed, but they fail to realize that it is working exactly how it has been built to work. Maybe not how it was intended to be built by the founding fathers but how it has been built none the less.

At best and what it is from the point of view of the citizen is 3 people locked in a room fighting over a gun so the winner can control the other 2. Different groups within the public want control of the government in order to force their way of life on the other groups. At worst and how it is from the point of view of the state, is one organization putting on a facade of division in order to keep the public divided and fighting amongst each other in order to allow them to enrich themselves and their friends and maintain and expand their control of the populace to the highest degree possible.

This is made obvious by a simple little fact that most people don’t realize unless its pointed out to them directly. You don’t get to vote for who you want to, you get to vote for who they let you vote for. The parties put on their primary “elections” in order to pick who will run in the actual elections, but as was learned from the DNC scandal during the Clinton Sanders primary election they are less than straight elections. The parties then use their powers to keep anyone else from running in the main election that is remotely on their side, using any number of means from payoffs to intimidation. This limits your vote to who they put forward, provided you stick to voting one of the two parties.

Its true you could do a write in candidate and vote for anyone you wanted but they are not going to get elected. Though it is an option for those who can’t bring themselves to not vote at all. Or you can vote third party. This is a statement towards refusing to vote for the uni-party of Democrat/Republican but you are still consenting to be ruled, simply by participating. Remember just because you vote for your new master doesn’t make you free. Your vote is saying I believe in the state but that someone else should be running it, but I will accept being ruled by who ever wins because that’s the rules.

Identity politics

A part of this system is identity politics which makes you choose an identity and have to vote exactly how that identity votes or you can’t be part of the identity anymore. Many peoples identity is wrapped up in a political party, and how they vote. To them any deviation from that straight Democrat or Republican ticket is no better than treason. This doesn’t leave much room for independent thought.

For others their identity it wrapped up in a religion, or their race and then those religions or races are supposed to vote for a certain party regardless of their personal beliefs toward the issues or how that party view those beliefs or issues. Pair this with most peoples cognitive bias/desire to not be on the loosing team and many people will pick one of these two options and disregard their own code or beliefs because they don’t want to be on the loosing team.

So where does that leave the free thinkers? Well they have some third parties and independent candidates, but they have less than no chance of winning typically and are constantly berated by the other two parties followers for being traitors, or giving their vote to the other side because they are not voting for their side.

No political system works on a large scale

Human beings have lived in small groups/tribes/warbands etc throughout our entire existence up until only comparatively recently groups with a population of around 150 people. This is called Dunbars number. Dunbar’s number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships—relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person.

Anything larger than this number and you loose connection and the larger the population the less an less connection until there is no connection at all and you have strangers. With no connection there is no trust, and no relationship which is the basis for all community and there by the systems they use to govern.

In a group where you know everyone, you can have a single leader, (king, chief) and there is a likelihood that all will be fine. You can also have democracy and there is little chance that the group will vote to enslave half the population because you know everyone. You can have communism where the tribe owns the property and everyone can share it without issues.

This is all possible because at that level of population, your more likely to all be mostly if not totally aligned on the major issues of your population, and there will typically be swift repercussions if someone try’s to over step their power and authority. Which in most cases they will not do in the first case cause most people won’t cross a group that they feel they belong to, with the obvious exceptions of certain personalities such as narcissists.

Now all those rules go out the window as the population size grows. Once those connections and relationships go out the window so does trust and the unified(ish) thinking of the tribe and then you get split populations and ideologies which is where the political turmoil starts. In these situations where the pitfalls of any political theory comes out.

When you have a large population and half or more have differing beliefs, they will invariably come to a clash at some point. As well those certain personalities we talked about will look for ways to get themselves the most power and benefit for themselves. In this situation with communism you get the soviet union, if you have democracy you get mob rule, with kings or single leaders, you get dictatorships and despots, at least according to half the population or less that don’t agree with his policies.

Now the US for example is too wildly different in almost every aspect from one geographic location to the other to be governed by one central government. Weather, people culture resources etc. the needs, wants, beliefs and ideologies are just to wildly different from area to area for one group or set of rules to understand or be able to account for all of them. Your can’t make everyone happy and the founding fathers knew this which is why the first governing system for the United States was the articles of confederation and not the constitution. It was later changed to the constitution which is what has let the problems grow to what they have today.

Democracy is mob rule

The voting system makes no sense if your in a minority position because none of you positions get put forward. It’s a matter of choosing between the worst kinds of choices that they put in front of you. There is nothing consensual about that as it’s a system of forced consent. By participating you concede to be ruled by whomever comes out on top in the election no matter if you vote for them or not because you are participating in the process, which means you agree with the process.

The smallest minority in any group will always be the individual, we are all unique and despite how much the empire and its systems try to force us into whatever little box or group they want us in, we will remain that way. This means the individual and their rights will always suffer at the hands of the mob, and this is the problem with the popular vote method. This is because any decision that needs to be voted on is decided by majority vote not a unanimous vote. They tell you that it could come down to a single vote, but where did anyone agree to be ruled by a group that wins by one vote. That means that potentially half the country does not agree with the other but has to bow down because for no other reason than they are the minority. This type of justification would not be allowed to be used any where else. How would that play in a rape trial? 2 guys want to have sex with a woman and she doesn’t. But now she has to let it happen because they are the majority vote?

The only way that would be somewhat ethical would be to require an unanimous vote. This means that the whole population agreed. Many would say that this would make it so that nothing would get done. Thats true and in a sense that is part of the point. Unless 100 percent of the population agreed on the vote it wouldn’t pass. Weed? Wouldn’t have to legalize it because it would not have been made illegal in the first place. Abortion? Guns? Freedom of speech? Individual rights would not be in near as much danger, as everyone would have to agree to take them away. Now what about murder? Rape? Kidnapping? Do you think that you could not get a unanimous vote that those should be illegal?

Now with all that being said, those in the US and many other countries are not even true democracies. They are one kind or another of republic. The people vote on representatives that are sent to parliament or congress or whatever the term is in the country in question. They are sent there to represent the people of their jurisdiction and their interests, or so you are lead to believe. Really they take money from corporations, special interest groups, and their wealthy friends, to push their interests when they win so that they can pay to bombard you with propaganda to convince you to vote for them. Then they completely ignore your needs because they are no longer beholden to you, but the corporations and groups they took money from. At least until the next election season.

This is easier than you might think, people have short attention spans and even shorter memories. They fall for the lies and promises made during election season and then forget completely that they promised the same thing last election and did the opposite during their term.

Most people don’t want true freedom, at least not for everyone.

People want to live their lives, but they don’t want other people to live lives that they don’t agree with. Both sides are guilty of this. They cannot comprehend or refuse to comprehend the concept of live and let live. If they don’t like weed, they think no one should use it. If they don’t believe in abortion no one should be able to get them. If they don’t like guns no one should own them, except the state so that they can enforce any of these rules they want to force on other people. They cannot understand or live in a world where people live or want to live different lives than they do and believe that other ways of life should be outlawed and their way of life forced on the other side.

You can pretty much boil down all lobbying of laws to one group wanting to force their way life on someone else. With the exception of corporate lobbying that typically is wanting laws passed forcing people in one way or the other to buy their products. Politicians then use these desires to control and force one groups ways onto the other to drum up votes.

Representation or lack there of.

I want to give credit to legal man from the quash podcast. It was an episode of his show that brought this information to my attention and its eye opening. In 1780 the first year of the United States the total population was around 2.7 million people. As of 2022 that number is estimated at around 333.28 million. The first congress had 65 members and grew to 435 by 1912 where it remained by law from 1941 on with only a short exception prior, when Alaska and Hawaii were ratified as states. The population of the United States in 1910 was roughly 93 million people. So the in the original congress each member represented roughly 41,538 people, In 1941 each member represented 213,793 people and today, each representative represents 766,160 people and each senator 3332800 people. So how much representation does each person actually have in congress? Especially if they are in a minority group for that representatives region? To receive the same level of representation that was given in the early congress, there would need to be over 8000 representatives in the house. Can the representative really listen to his constituents to a degree that will matter?

What does your vote actually do?

The next level of the problem is that the people who you are voting for are not the ones actually in charge anymore. People who are in the government for their entire lives are not voted in they are appointed. And often stay no matter who is in the White House or congress. Did you get a say in the matter of whether or not they stayed or were hired in the first place? Many of these positions for what ever reason never have to be held accountable to congress or anyone else.  The President is only there for a max of 8 years. Congressmen can be there longer but could still be gone next election. The people who really hold the power are occasionally appointed and stay for the majority of their life.

A recent example of this is Dr. Fauci. Who was in office for multiple presidents and most of his adult life. Directors of federal agencies and all their underlings, and federal judges and the Supreme court judges are just a few other examples.

Let’s look at some numbers.

According to 2020 stats the Federal, State, and Local governments had a total number of 23.43 million people. 2.87 mil. at the federal level with 1.33 mil. In the military and 19.23 million in the countries different state and local governments. How many did the people vote for?

The President – But not the Vice president as they are a chosen by the President. A 100 senators and 435 house members federally. 50 governors, in some states LT governors are voted on and others they are chosen by the governor so we will just call it 50. (its not gonna skew the numbers) In State Senates in total there is 1943 members with 5415 state house representatives and with roughly 19,495 incorporated cities in the United States you have the mayors.

Now in the majority of the Government and the country Law enforcement leaders are appointed and their staff is then hired with on 46 states electing sherifs by vote for the county level law enforcement and only 39 states elect judges. Only in those states do you have a direct say in law enforcement leadership and there by maybe a say in their policies other wise they are appointed and they are going to do whatever their boss tells them to do.

In total there is 27,438 total elected officials or .00117106% of the government. So the people have only a say in .0012% of the government (rounded) up to ten thousandths of a percent.

Then at the federal level the President appoints or could if he changed up the whole bench 4000 positions with only 1200-1400 of them needing senate approval as a check in balance, and that is just the federal level. Those 4000 positions are then responsible for the policies, hiring of staff and regulation of the agencies and organization they are in charge of that ends up playing a part in your life in one way or another through the regulation and rules that they can and often pass without even your so called representatives input.

So what can you do?

The easy answer for many is don’t vote, and I get it, dissolve the conditioned belief that other men and women who call themselves “government” have the right to rule you, adopt voluntarist principles, and stop engaging with the political system altogether. Build and live your life so that whomever is in office doesn’t matter. Withdraw your vote from the system as a vote of no confidence.

How is “get out and vote harder” the solution for those who think the 2020 election was stolen (never mind the integrity of every election before that)? Do they believe their vote matters? How about those who voted for Hillary in the previous election who think Russia stole the election for Trump?

Even if one side completely controls every single elected position in all levels of government, and replaces every single one of the appointed positions, which will never happen at either circumstance. Do you think they would be able to remove all the entrenched corruption that is there now from all the levels below them? How much cleaning up will the system allow And why would a politician do that for you when he could keep the status quo and reap the benefits.

This could and probably will result in naked power grabs by so called elected officials. These actions will only decrease confidence even further. That’s only the short term. I’m talking about the long game. If American men stop thinking of the government as “us” and start thinking of it as “them” if we stop thinking of ourselves as Americans and start acting for our own our tribes or families interests things could really get interesting.

~Jack Donovan

Your vote isn’t going to fix the system. No one that gets in is going to be able to fix it all even if they could. There is too many organizations that will stone wall until they are back out of office. For those that don’t vote the best thing you can do for your country, for your tribe, and for the future, is to let the system tear itself apart. And be ready to play a role in the rebuilding afterward.

Your cast vote is a consent to being ruled, a statement that you think the system is fixable. When you argue in favor of a candidate you’re telling people that you think that candidates view should be forced on everyone and that they should be the one ruling everyone. That the change of who is in control of the system will fix it and not that the system itself is broken or built that way in the first place.

Local-ist Voting

If you can’t bring yourself to not vote at all, I get it the conditioning is deep. I haven’t been able to bring myself not to vote completely either. So what are your options when nothing you do is going to change the federal level in a substantial way? Vote third party or write in candidates at the federal level to make sure your vote doesn’t go to someone you don’t want it to. And make sure you focus on your local elections and voting.

Just like charity the closer to home your actions the more impact you will be able to see and contribute to. The local elections will have more impact on your local life than a lot of federal elections and you do still have the ability to fight off certain policies locally that can at least in the short term improve your way life in one way or another.

There is the possibility that in the future, certain federal policies can effectively be nullified as well if you have a local government that is on the same page, look at the sanctuary city principle for immigration or gun laws, as well as the states legalizing and decriminalizing different “drugs”. Nullification has already effectively happened on some of these fronts so it is technically possible in others. In addition if the federal level does tear it self apart, having an already established system that you at best don’t have to fight everything on, could hopefully ease the transition pains and stave off any control grabs from other groups.

Conclusion

If you made it this far, congratulations, there is hope for us all yet. Half the battle of making change, is understanding all the dynamics that play a part in the situation at hand. Once understood, you can then play a more active role in helping bring about change for the betterment of everyone. My hope is that I’ve given you enough food for thought to cause you to do your own homework, your own research and work towards making valuable changes and to see the value in small communities (tribes if you will) and the impact they can play in your life.

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What Is Brotherhood

What is brotherhood? Men are not meant to be isolated, Modern society either sells men on the supposed benefits to living an isolated and disconnected life, or it creates situations that require it in order to succeed or as is the case for most people,  just to get by. This goes against how man has developed and lived since the beginning of time. Men need to be part of a  tribe, men need brotherhood, we are not meant to be lone wolves. Part of why society is where it is today is because men stopped depending on each other and started depending on the Empire.

A lone man is quite easy to manage in one way or another and is rarely a threat to something as widespread as the Empire. Without a support network a man alone is nothing but the sum of his intelligence, genetics, and life experience. His wants or needs are his alone and are of little consequence to anyone else especially the Empire. This makes him easy to control and dependent on the Empire and its many systems. This is the Empire’s future, a large pool of interchangeable units of labor.

When a man finds himself in a group of men he quickly figures out how he stacks up. When this group is your brothers, that have your best interests at heart they will push you to better yourself, and help you along the way while you do the same for them. When you are alone and the men around you are strangers, they likely don’t have your best interest at heart and even if they do you can simply ignore them and live in a fantasy that you are already the best, and you will stay exactly where you are, never growing or bettering yourself. Being part of a group that you care about and care what they think makes that impossible. While a woman might say that you did your best, a brother will look you in the eyes and say you could have done better and then shows you how and If nothing else the healthy competition brotherhood provides will be the catalyst for growth.

Brotherhood used to be a part of everyday life back in the times of roaming tribes trying to survive. Other tribes were trying to kill them, nature was trying to kill them, all of life was a fight. The men of these tribes would draw a perimeter around themselves and the tribe and fight to protect it. Defending this perimeter has always been job one. Then as tribes began to settle down and become villages, and villages became towns and towns cities, the world became more “civilized.” With that “civilization” Less and less people had to fight to survive. Male only professions  then became the holdout for the last vestiges of brotherhood until the only place where men had to band together to fight for a common goal, and watch each others back was the Military, law enforcement, and the Fire service. However thanks to the degradation of these bonds and traditions of these institutions, corruption, over regulation, back stabbing colleges and toxic command staff to name a few, brotherhood in these professions as well has began to die or already has. These so called, last remaining holdouts of brotherhood are also said to have a higher purpose and are more of a calling then a job, but as many who get into them know this has become less and less true as time goes on and are now just marketing and recruiting campaigns designed to pull on those strings inside men in order to replenish the ranks.

I don’t believe I’ve ever experienced true brotherhood, looking back I was exposed to fleeting moments of something that resembled it but nothing that ever truly rose to the standard. It took me reading some books that shined a light on it and brought brotherhood and tribe into perspective, to know I was even missing it. I knew something was missing, and I knew that I was looking for it, but what it was specifically eluded me. Looking back on the goals I’ve had in life, brotherhood was major aspect in all of them and I just didn’t realize it or have the language to explain it at the time.

 Now that I knew what I was searching for, and after sometime of actively searching for it, I question if it is still attainable in today’s society. It seemed hard to attain before 2019 let alone now, after 3 years of society dividing propaganda, the damage resulting from the pandemic response, political turmoil and the destruction of societies social bonds thanks to social media over the last decade it almost seems impossible. This damage has resulted in what some would call “families” actively splitting up or exiling their own over political views, vaccination status, or any number of meaningless issues of the day that have been pushed on them by society and the Empire.

 A man without a brotherhood who  is going through hardship can overburden his wife with the weight of his problems. This will cause more stress on the relationship and family, often times much more than necessary. However even when you have no hardships, having some brotherhood in your life fulfills an evolutionary requirement for men. When this requirement is fulfilled they feel better physically as well, their mood, mental health and confidence all improve. While this is great for the men, this will also transfer over into other aspects of your life and make your family as a whole happier as well.

Some will say that your wife or girlfriend should be all the support network you need, but she doesn’t want to be your therapist, or your only problem solver, she wants to be your wife. And despite what they say, women cannot truly understand some things that men go through for one simple reason, they are not men, and because of that they will see the world in a different way.

“Your woman will never be able to fully relax into her femininity so long as you treat her like your coach, therapist or healer. She can support you, but how are you supporting yourself?”

~Brandan Schmidt

WHAT IS BROTHERHOOD

Summed up in a few words, from an online meme, “Friends help you move, brothers help you move bodies.” Brotherhood is more than just having a male friend, or even a few of them. It is about having men in your life that care about each other and are willing to have each others back. Who you are willing to put before your self if the need arises. Much of what I understand brotherhood to be now occurred to me after reading The Way of Men by Jack Donovan as well as some of the fleeting moments of pesudo-brotherhood I experienced from my time in the Fire Service.

Being part of a brotherhood is a commitment and in some ways a skill.  It requires that you show up, and put in work with or to help the men in your group. It requires this consistently to maintain that relationship, like a skill it is something that you will get better at as time goes on and it will improve other aspects of your life. Showing up and putting in work is what is required to run any business, organization or your family, Brotherhood nurtures this in men making them more prepared for the real world.

Brotherhood also requires honor, but how do you know what is honorable? How do you know if you or your brothers are honorable? Cultures change, society changes, what is acceptable, changes and are subjective to the individual or group of individuals, this is where the honor code comes in and in short, you and your brothers will have to figure out what honor means to you, what your code is and what constitutes fallowing it? This code should be one part of the set of rules that govern your brotherhood, following them is honorable, the more you follow the more honorable you are and if you break them you dishonor the group And there needs to be consequences. This is partially how the group is held accountable. This through history has been tied to chivalry, and manners, loyalty etc. For instance The marines motto is “Semper fidelis, or Semper Fi. This means always faithful, practically this translates to never let a fellow marine fight alone or having each others back. This one aspect alone when instilled properly, is why the few veterans I hear talking about still having that brotherhood even once they are off active duty, are those coming out of the Marine Corps.

Brotherhood begins as an alliance between men against all external forces. This oath be it formal or informal spoken or unspoken is the most sacred aspect of the brotherhood. The oath of brotherhood creates a voluntary kinship a sense of collective identity a foundation of trust. The oath of brotherhood is what holds everything together and without it or when it has been irreparable corrupted by conniving and betrayal the brotherhood will inevitably fall apart.

~ Jack Donovan

Brotherhood requires commitment, you will need to know that the men beside you are going to have your back and are not going to turn and run, they also need to know the same about you. You will need to be able to count on them in times of crisis. In order to be successful you will want the other men to prove they are committed to the team. This is one aspect that is looked for in special operations selections. Also beyond proving ability this is why police and fire departments have probationary periods, also the reason motorcycle gangs have prospects, and street gangs have jumping ins. All these groups have tests to judge how committed the individual is to the team.

 The men that want to join have to also care about what the members think, if they don’t care what they think there is no reason for them to work to grow and improve. Men who don’t care about what the other men think of them aren’t dependable.

Brothers should push each other and hold each other to a standard.  Men need someone to push them, and call them on their bullshit when the going gets tough in order to become what they are truly capable of. Where a woman might pat you  tell you you did your best, your brother should look you in the eyes and say “do  better.”

As an attempt in recent years to get back some shred brotherhood men’s groups, masterminds, and men’s support groups started popping up and becoming more popular. While being well intentioned, they are usually built around nothing more than getting together and talking with no other goal, purpose, or activity. This alone cannot foster brotherhood, there needs to be an over arching common goal, some kind of battle to fight. They need to go to war in some way whether that is against them selves (Self improvement with a stated goal), another team (sports league) or in the business world.

“Men need accountability, challenge and to be confronted by the truth. These things are not found easily in modern life, but they are found in brotherhood.”

~Brandan Schmidt

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The Empires Masculinity

 Masculinity is mainly about what men want from each other, its is about being a man within a group of men. Women believe they can improve men, they think they can change eons of men’s evolution by redefining masculinity to make it about what women think they want from men. Men want women to want them, this is obvious, but this approval isn’t the only approval men look for.

One of the secrets to being a man is never allowing the fiercest part of you to be tamed

When men behave savagely only men will understand

~ Michael Kurchina

Men compete against each other within a group for status and as a way to seek each others approval. This is part of the the crucible that all boys must under go to become a man. This crucible must be undergone whether a boy likes it or not. Unfortunately with the death of tribes, and brotherhoods, boys have few if any guides or traditions to explain this to them.

Often times it goes forgotten or rejected completely. Essentially forfeiting their place as men and accepting defeat before they even get started. They remain in a state of perpetual boyhood that is becoming increasingly obvious as you look around society.

Some will reward and encourage this forfeiture. Playkating the boys as being courageous for doing so, these people are weak. They despise masculinity and anyone who demonstrates it. They are usually men who failed or forfeited their crucible or are manipulators working behind the curtain who prefer men to be passive to further their own agendas.

Many these days argue that masculinity is no longer or never was necessary. These people are really saying that your masculinity is not necessary, to THEM. That your masculinity is an inconvenience or threatens them or their agendas in some way. They are saying that you should make an effort to limit your own potential so that they can realize their potential instead.

The Empire and our so called leaders have created a world in spite of men. A world that refuses to accept who men are despite their war cries of inclusiveness and acceptance of everyone. They push men to change “for the better”  by abandoning their “antiquated” ways. They push them to conform to the new ways put forth by The Empire and offer nothing in return.

All Empire has to offer is rampant materialism with nothing of any substance or value. Nothing Spiritual, less and less freedom, nothing that nurtures the soul and by all margins, far less than our fathers and men of past generations was offered.

If you give your consent and confine yourself to this spiritual prison willingly, you deserve the tiny, wasted life of dishonor and servitude that your new owners will assign you.

This end of men, this decline of males this new bonobo masturbation society of peace and plenty-this no mans land- is not inevitable. It will require the tacit or expressed consent of billions of men. Like every civilization, it must be built on the backs of men, and most of them must agree to abide by and enforce its laws. You cant have prisons without prison guards and you cant have security without some kind of police. Men will have to get up in the morning and go to their clerking jobs and smile and consume and continue to amuse themselves according to regulation. Civilization requires a social contract and men have to keep up their end of the bargin for it to work. This future can only happen if men help create it.

~Jack Donovan The Way of Men

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WHAT IS A TRIBE?

Robert Frost famously wrote that home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. The word “tribe” is far harder to define, but a start might be the people who you feel compelled to share the last of your food with.

~Sebastian Junger

Sebastian Junger is referring to a time that he was back packing in the United States and was approached by a stranger as he sat on the side of an overpass. The wan was a fill in worker at the local coal mine that lived in a broken down car. On this day he was not needed so he didn’t need the lunch that he had packed. Junger remembers the man saying “I saw you from town and just wanted to make sure you were okay” As he offered him the lunch that he probably got from the local church and Junger now felt obligated to take. Junger later states that he thinks of this man often to this day. “He’d been generous, yes, but lots of people are generous; what made him different was the fact that he’d taken responsibility for me. He’d spotted me from town and walked half a mile out a highway to make sure I was okay. For reasons I’ll never know, the man in Gillette decided to treat me like a member of his tribe.”

ISOLATION

Humans are not meant to be isolated, individually or even as a family. We were not meant to stick to our selves, work, pay taxes and die. Modern society sells us on the supposed benefits to living an isolated and physically disconnected life, or it creates situations that require it in order to succeed or in the case of most, just to get by. Our species is now the most digitally connected that it has ever been but we have grown apart physically. This goes against how humans have developed and lived since the beginning of time. They need to be part of  a tribe, in person and real, not digitally in some computer generated universe or via a phone on some social media platform that barely mimics human interaction. People often talk about the nuclear family and the single family unit, but this is not enough, A support network of 10 is better than a support network of two.

Today, for most people tribe has become a superficial synonym for “loyal customer.” The Empire in one way or another has watered it down to a trendy marketing buzzword, and removed any substantial meaning it once had, taking any example of surviving tribalism and portraying them as barbaric or uncivilized, labeling them a cult, gang or terrorist organization and calling them extremists. While true in some instances, it is in appropriate to apply the label to all groups, especially from a society that champions so called “equality and acceptance”.

BARBARIANS OF OLD

 Groups considered barbarians throughout history were not necessarily people that had no moral codes, criminals, cannibals or savages as they are often portrayed today. They were simply groups separate of the empire of the time. Maybe their morals or codes or culture did not completely align with that of the current empire or maybe they did and they just wanted to live separately, this on its own didn’t make them evil, or criminal it just made them different and separate. They took care of their own, and cared little for anything or anyone else, and wanted to be left alone. This behavior or the desire for it today makes you extreme. These depictions were perpetrated for the same reason that it is today for people who go against the narrative. Its an attempt to keep the Empires citizens from deserting the Empire or what ever cause it is pushing at the moment.

The Empire continues to defame and disgrace tribal societies even in this supposedly all inclusive, all beliefs are welcome time period we are supposed to be living in because the existence of tribes is inconvenient to the Empire. Specifically the aspects of it that require everyone to fit into one of a few different boxes that it uses in its systems as well as it’s demand that we are supposed to put everyone else above ourselves and our own people.  The future The Empires is pushing us into doesn’t require the re-imagining of tribe it ultimately demands the end of tribe. According to the Empire we are not supposed to have any beliefs, relationships or anything more important to us than that which it decides is important.

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WHAT IS TRIBE

Until I read Tribe by Sebastian Junger I didn’t even know that it was something I was missing. I knew I was missing something, and that I was looking for it, but reading Junger’s book gave it a name, or at least part of it a name. Now after reading it and a host of other books I have started to form a picture of what I would consider a tribe.

A tribe can take on many shapes and sizes depending on their circumstances and your own personal views on the subject. You could already be part of one and did not consider it that, or you may have to build it from scratch. A tribe could be your family friends and relatives depending on how close you are or this could be a team your part of along with your  families such as a police department, military unit, or a sports team. It will all depend on how bonded the group is, whether you feel responsible for each other and whether it meats your image or definition of a tribe as well as some factors that you should consider.

HOW BIG IS IT?

Researchers state the human brain can only maintain meaningful relationships with about 150-250 people at any given time. Now depending on what standard you put on meaningful relationship, as well as how the rest of your time is spent this number is going to fluctuate either higher or lower, most likely lower. This means that you can’t possibly know more people than that well enough to trust them even remotely. This limitation would have developed out of generations upon generations of humans living on this planet and caps the general size of what you should consider for your tribe. Now most people these days probably won’t anything near this limit if they really consider the people that would be close enough to be your tribe. This means that most of those 1000 Facebook friends some of you might have are not going to make the cut.

LOYALTY AND CULTURE

Now that we have an idea about size, Sebastian Junger’s story above  sheds some more light on what tribe is, People that care enough about you and you them to take responsibility and care for each other, or  “share the last of your food with them,” this means people that you can depend on and they you. In other words a certain level of loyalty not usually seen these days, which will likely make this the most difficult part of this endeavor. Finding loyalty is hard these days because it generally speaking is not rewarded in most instances. Loyalty these days typically is only spoken of in terms of frequent buyer programs. Spend more of your hard earned dollars with this one store only and we will reward you with a minuscule cash back reward or a discount coupon for further purchases. Loyalty among each other is not rewarded by any aspect of the Empire because it is against its interests and most people rarely think to reward it themselves.

In addition, a tribe is going to a have a culture all to their own, this doesn’t mean that the culture is going to be completely different from other tribes or even from society but it will likely have something unique to themselves. Whether, their rituals, customs, language or slang they will have to have some form of collective identity that makes them unique. This could the organization that you are a part of that brought them together such as the Special Forces for its team members and their families, or the rituals that their close relatives have  such as how they pray before eating, or maybe they get together for a cigar every Saturday, or a BBQ once a month.

LONE WOLVES

Humans are social beings, the loner who actually likes to be alone, is an anomaly no matter how romantic the story of the wandering lone wolf hero may sound.  Odds are in the majority of people after a certain amount of time being isolated is going to take its tole, all you need is to look at is statistics of mental health and suicides over the past few years to see the evidence of that.

  Human beings who have no collective identity, no strong alliances, sense of belonging, or people they can depend on become drifters dependent on the larger system of The Empire that rules from the top down. Some people fill this need of collective identity and belonging with sports teams, religious brand fixations or their country. However as The Empire slowly crawls toward its goal of universalist identities and and as brands continue to disappoint their customers,  if they are not getting it from their tribe, people will begin to loose what little sense of belonging and collective Identity they have left in their lives. This is one reason that you see people join gangs, cults, frat houses, or ideological movements, it gives them that sense of belonging.

YOUR TWO OPTIONS

Now the way I see it your tribe is going to fall into one of two categories based on how I see it rolling out for other people, and that will slightly change how you go about finding or building it. Your tribe is either going to be or at least start as basically a club or maybe a brotherhood or mens group type organization. You might be able to find en established one, or you might have to build one. This could be as easy as just adding some formality to your already close friend group if you have one. Nothing else about your life really changes other than you are looking for a group of close friends or maybe relatives that you want to be around more often and be closer with than just face book likes and half assed comments on each others pictures.

Your second option is going to look like something more closely resembling what a Tribe has resembled for most of history. These typically go by “Intentional communities” and have been popular for years in certain groups of people and are no becoming more and more popular in the both the freedom community and just everyday life as poeple seek to recapture some form of community in their life or simply check out of the rat race. These groups usually have a large property or grouping of properties. The members live close to each other, work for common goals, they might have their own education programs for kids, or business they run such as farms or gardens. They may have dietary restrictions or other exclusivity based on faith or politics. They can also be “family compounds” where many generations of relatives live on the same land. This can easily grow out of the first option if your group decides to or you can try and go straight to this if it sounds good to you, As Jack Donovan put it,

What ever your us is and whatever your tribe is its just an idea in your head until you have a group of truly interdependent people who share the same fate. That’s what a tribe is. that’s what a community is and that is the future of identity in America.

~ Jack Donovan

 

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Who is your family? Who is your tribe?

How do you define family? Have you ever actually thought about it? How about friend?

I have become very careful in my word use over the years because It is very important to understand the words you use. If you don’t, you not only don’t truly know what you are saying and that can lead to problems, but words have meaning. Beyond the obvious definition and understanding of communication, words effect you and your brain on the subconscious level. For example if you call someone a friend or call them family and they are abusing you or mistreating you, this causes a disconnect in your brain and view/understanding of the world even if you don’t consciously realize it.

Now most people, who care about anything other than themselves, subscribe to the thought that family is the highest possible level relationship and they typically define family one of two ways…

1. A: the basic unit in society traditionally consisting of two parents rearing their children (Nuclear Family)

2. A: a group of persons of common ancestry (Your blood Relatives)

This is in my opinion both too restrictive and too forcefully inclusive. Some of your biggest detractors and saboteurs will come from people in these definitions, more so from the blood relatives. To that end I would have to say I use a definition closer to this….

1. A: a group of people united by certain convictions or a common affiliation

This how ever while being closer is not specific enough, just because we believe the same things or belong to the same large group or have similar affiliations doesn’t make you family. That is no better than lumping in all your blood relatives, it still lacks something key, Loyalty. Now I have always been a subscriber to the theory of quality over quantity when it comes to relationships but in recent years that has grown to a new level and I have come to the following conclusion.

People in your life fall into 1 of 6 categories

On a scale from worse to best, Enemies, strangers, acquaintances, blood relatives, friends, and family. Let me elaborate.

ENEMIES: People who don’t like you and would seek out to hurt you if they got the opportunity. This could physically, financially, emotionally or any other way they could hurt you.

STRANGERS: The majority of the world will fall in this category, these people are neutral for the most part, in the sense that they don’t care one way or the other about you. They simply just don’t know you. If something happened they might help you on the street they might not there is no way to tell and they cannot be counted on to do so. They might and that would be a lottery win for you but thats about it.

ACQUAINTANCES: Less then friends, and by my standards people that most people consider friends fall into this category. Your coworkers probably fall into this category 99% of the time. They dont seek out to hurt you necessarily, but they can’t be counted on to help you either if it was inconvenient to them or if there was a benefit to them not to help you. This in common in corporate environments because if you screw up your coworkers typically look better for promotions. They could also be people you have met once or twice or Your relationship is one of convenience, such as school, where you are forced into proximity for periods of time but you dont see each other out side of that. Maybe you or they are too busy for more than that or maybe you or they have no interest in more. If you have to qualify their friendship such as “work friend” or “gym friend” then these people are acquaintances. These relationships may seem empty or one sided. These could also be people that are friends of friends, friends of family, or depending on your tribes size, family members of tribe members that you don’t have a familiarity with yet. The closer the relation ship of these people get to you or your tribe the more they should be considered to be loyal to you or your tribe and help you if necessary and you help them if necessary. Next to Blood Relatives, a lot of your detractors and saboteurs will come from this group and the people that most people consider friends.

BLOOD RELATIVES: These People are related to you by blood and ancestry, and could be considered by marriage as they are the blood of your spouse, that is it. This is what most people consider family and they typically put this group above all else no matter how toxic a relationship it might be. This is unsafe and unhealthy to privatize a relationship simply because your DNA is similar. Some of your biggest detractors and saboteurs will come from this group whether well intentioned or not. Even if this wasn’t the case, you likely have better relationships with people unrelated to you, than you do with some of your blood relatives. You may not even know any of your blood relatives and because of this they are closer to acquaintances generally than anything else.

FRIENDS: These are people that you have active relationships with. You make a point to reach out and talk to each other, you probably started as an acquaintance, its just how these things work. You may or may not have some shared history, you may or may not have know each other for along time. Regardless, you have each others best interest in mind, and you would help each other if you can if something came up. This is a higher standard than most people place on their friends and because of that, by my definition these people will be supportive, they won’t try to sabotage you, or your goals whether accidental or on purpose. This is where most of the people you should consider your tribe will be and where you will find your brothers, and depending on your situation where these people will most likley stay.

FAMILY: The cream of the crop, your inner circle. These people may be blood related, but they dont have to be. Blood relation doesn’t get you into this group loyalty does. These may be people you served with in the military, they may be friends you have known for years. You definitely share history and most likley some life changing events hopefully good but likely some bad too. You dot have to question if they have your best interest at heart and you wouldn’t think about crossing or back stabing them in any way. These are the people that will drop what they are doing to help you if you need it and vice versa. These are going to be the hardest people to find but are a invaluable part to your life. This is where your brotherhood should fall. the tightest circle of your tribe. Your brothers should feel like family, thats why they are your brothers.

Obviously people cannot become blood related and then loose it but as a whole people in your life will likely rise and fall through this scale.

Typically if you trying to build a tribe or brotherhood you would want to start looking in as a high a category as you can. Start with who you consider family already and you will likely find some people, if you don’t then look at your friends, if not or you want more look at your blood relatives and or acquaintances and see who might have potential and work raising your relationship with them.

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What kind of barbarian are you?

You have to know yourself, know your beliefs, what you are going to stand for, die for, and what you are willing to let slide. If you do not know these things and have your lines drawn in the sand then you will get forced and manipulated into doing things that you don’t want to do. You will forever be at the mercy of the Empire, it’s systems and whatever way public opinion is flowing. You won’t be a barbarian you will be a slave to whatever the hip new fad or opinion is and effectively become a low tier character in your own story rather than the main character you are meant to be.

“You are not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your fucking khakis.
~Tyler Durden

The process

 

Figuring this out will take some time. I know it’s, I have been at it a better part of a couple of years and I am still at it, but you can figure out the basics. You are going to go back and forth on some things and realize the world is not black and white and some things just have no good answers or solutions.

Ideally in order to accomplish this you would spend a week or more cut off from the rest of the world, no technology, no internet, no substances, coffee, weed, drugs etc. Cutting your self off from all the things that alter your mind, program you subconscious and effect your judgment. Because if someone is constantly telling you what you are or who you are or how you are supposed to act you will never be able to get a clear enough head to figure out for your self who you truly are.

Now if you have the ability, there are many retreats out there for this sort of thing, but if you can’t, at least get a notebook and over a weekend turn your phone off, turn off your internet, TV, etc. Just try to be alone and start thinking about who you are. Write down what ever comes.

Here are some prompts to get you thinking

              (First write down the answers to these question)
1.    What is your favorite part of each day?
2.    What are  the three most important things in your everyday life?
3.    Where would  your ideal vacation destination be?
4.    What is your favorite hobby? Can you do more of it?
5.    Where do you get your daily news stories and current affairs updates from?
6.    Do they enhance or damage your daily productivity?
7.    What do you still invest time in that no longer benefits you?
8.    What is your personal definition of success?
9.    How will you know when you have achieved success?
10.    Write down what you want to have achieved in the next 3 months, 6 months and 12 months.
11.    What does love mean to you?
12.    Do you have any religious/spiritual beliefs? What are they?
13.    Why Do you have these beliefs?

Have you been programmed?

14. Do you have an emotional response and don’t know why
15.Are you angry at a person or about a topic but you can’t articulate why or can’t speak intelligently about it?
(If you answered yes to either of those then you don’t have a belief, You have been programmed)

Your personal relationships

Now take look at your personal relationships and figure out which ones you would help if they needed it, which you would lone money too, which you would fight for, now how about who you would die for. Now look at it the other way and be honest with yourself. Who mistreats you, who treats you well. What relationships do you have that both benefit you and the other person, who do you trust and who don’t you? This could be family, friends, co workers, bosses, any relationship in your life.

If you can’t look at this in an unbiased manner, and most people can’t, find a few people whose opinion you trust and ask them about the other people in your life. However make sure you do this one at a time and separately, then compare notes from each person by your self. Doing this will allow you to sift through any personal bias on their side. If you talk to 5 close friends and they all tell you someone is bad for you then you might want to look at that relationship. Now if Tom says Jimmy is a horrible person and Jimmy says Tom is a horrible person but no one else has a judgment then those two might not like each other but that doesn’t mean that either of them are toxic. Use YOUR best judgment.

Testing these relationships

You can also ask the people in your life for help with something, do they help you, or blow you off? You will need to do this multiple times to make sure it really wasn’t something that they couldn’t help with or that timing was really bad on their end whatever the excuse may have been. You can also simply drop of the map for a few days, Don’t text, call, or Facebook anyone and see who checks in on you. Keep in mind this test can really be an eye opener so if you are not ready for the answers on this one don’t ask the question. If through these process you find the people do check in on you, they do drop what they are doing to help you out, focus more of your time on those relationships.

A truly unbiased assessment of your personal relationships may be quite depressing. Many men if they are honest with themselves have few if any people in their life that they could actually depend on in a bad situation or even simply borrow a small amount of cash. Some have none at all and are entirely dependent the government programs, systems and corporations of the Empire. This is the way the Empire works and they like it that way.

This process however is only the beginning

From now on look at any situation that presents itself to you and find out how YOU feel about them. Not how the media or your wife or your parents tell you to think about it. If something interests you research it, if something doesn’t sound right, research it. If you have an opinion about any topic and you haven’t researched it thoroughly and looked at both sides, then you nothing more than a useful idiot for one side of the argument. If you do not know the definition of that term I recommend you look it up.

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Welcome

This is the Modern Barbarian

Mainly seen in the times of the Greek and Roman empires the term barbarian was used in a derogatory manner to describe a member of any of the various peoples living outside the dominant Empire of the region or not fully integrated into their civilization or society. To the citizens of the empire these people who were typically considered uncivilized or culturally inferior. 

Looking around so called civilization today we here at the Modern Barbarian dawn this label proudly and thus, The Modern Barbarian is a place for like minded people to join us

This Began a few years ago as a journey of discovery for my self after I found my self resigning from a short career in law enforcement and having to deal with an 18 month battle in the so called health care system that I was ultimately ignored and cast aside by. After a few months of not knowing what to do and feeling like my compass was spinning I and my family began researching to find answers to my health issues.  As I started to find answers and I also started to widen my gaze and began to see everything else that was wrong around me. This started with Food and nutrition and natural next step from health, then branched out into politics the same old story of Left vs Right, Red vs Blue. Which led to history and on it went. As time went on, some of the few people around me that saw what I saw began down the same road I did and now this journey is one of my growing (all be it slowly) tribe.

So follow along with our journey as we cover all the topics I ended up going down and more as I find new ones so you too can become a barbarian.

Topics such as……

  • Self Reliance

  • Masculine Philosophy

  • Brotherhood

  • Tribe

  • The System
  • Freedom
  • Fitness

  • Nutrition

  • Traditional/ancestral Living
  • Entrepreneurship

  • Wealth generation

  • Spirituality
  • Dogs
  • Lifestyle Design

“When society starts to go crazy, becomes something that you no longer recognize and begins to go against your morals or personal code, it forces you to choose. Throw out your code and go crazy your self to say an insider of the society of the Empire or maintain your code, be able to live with your self, and become a barbarian”

~ M. Barbarian